PortaOne Announces PortaSwitch Maintenance Release 22, Unveils 'Long-Life

COQUITLAM, British Columbia, Aug. 19 -- Global communications software company PortaOne, Inc. today announced PortaSwitch Maintenance Release 22 (MR22), a major new release of the company's flagship VoIP call control and subscriber management platform.  Featuring a number of important upgrades that add value and performance for customers and service providers alike, MR22 is now available to current PortaSwitch owners for field testing, with no additional license fee required.  

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PortaSwitch MR22 brings a number of new performance features to PortaOne's innovative platform that is capable of handling the complete call control and converged VoIP billing functions of a diversified digital services company.  The 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Linux product consists of a real-time billing system, class 4 and 5 SIP softswitch, and application servers that deliver converged VoIP billing and provisioning, SIP call control, unified messaging, IP Centrex and hosted IP PBX, callback management, IVRs, conferencing and more.

Under normal circumstances, when an IP phone goes online it provides PortaSwitch with information about its current location on the Internet; the new capability doubles PortaSwitch's ability to process registration attempts on a per-second basis, thus better protecting the system from a "registration storm" that is either unintended or part of a denial-of-service attack.

iPhone users can playback their voicemails.  A convenient new feature for businesspeople, MP3 voicemail is an addition to traditional WAV recording that allows voicemails attached to outgoing email to be played on new MP3-compliant platforms such as iPhones.  A license for three "ports" will be provided by PortaOne free of charge to all customers upgrading to MR22, enabling up to three voicemails to be converted to the MP3 format simultaneously (licenses for additional ports can be obtained by contacting the PortaOne sales team).

PIN-less customers will enjoy higher level of security.  A new layer of protection for residential VoIP users, password protection ensures that popular PIN-less dialing services based on outgoing ANI or CLI are not spoofed.  Part of the PortaUM prepaid calling component of PortaSwitch, the new feature prompts customers for their password before allowing access to such services.  The improvement allows service providers to gain a competitive advantage when rolling out dialing services and to offer these services to a larger customer group.

Clients can call through PortaSwitch directly from their mobile phones.  Thanks to a new partnership with WLCom, PortaSwitch now interoperates with the WLCom Mobile Communication Client, enabling calls to be made from the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms.  The addition lets end users employ a single phone and unified list of contacts while still saving on long distance and international calls.

"PortaOne's service goal has always been to keep our customers at the very forefront of the fast-changing VoIP industry.  We believe the debut of MR22, as well as our new 'long-term' designation, will provide a comprehensive and powerful development path for any PortaSwitch user," said Andriy Zhylenko, chief technical officer for PortaOne.

Based in Canada, PortaOne is a leading global vendor and developer of carrier grade software for modern telecommunication service providers.  The company enables service providers and carriers to run a broad line of retail and wholesale telecommunication services with a single software package, and offers a complete product consisting of converged VoIP billing and service provisioning platform, class 4 and 5 SIP softswitch to support hosted IPPBX or IP Centrex services, unified messaging, IVR, conferencing applications, callbacks, calling cards and more.  The company's products are a fundamental part of the business infrastructure at over 330 service provider locations worldwide.  To learn more, visit www.portaone.com.